---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT VALIDATING AND RATIFYING AMENDMENT TO SECTION 2-1 OF THE HOME RULE CHARTER OF THE CITY OF EAST PROVIDENCE (Ratifies and confirms the amendment to Section 2-1 of the Home Rule Charter of the city of East Providence establishing four (4) year terms for members of the city council.)"
description: "AN ACT VALIDATING AND RATIFYING AMENDMENT TO SECTION 2-1 OF THE HOME RULE CHARTER OF THE CITY OF EAST PROVIDENCE (Ratifies and confirms the amendment to Section 2-1 of the Home Rule Charter of the city of East Providence establishing four (4) year terms for members of the city council.)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ri"
legislature: "Rhode Island General Assembly"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 6235"
citation: "Rhode Island HB 6235 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Charter", "East Providence"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Amore", "Cassar", "Kazarian", "Serodio"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 9
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2019-06-20"
last_action: "2019-07-19"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/78cacc38-8734-46f7-bce3-a180b2d136b8"
source_url: "http://status.rilin.state.ri.us/"
source_hash: "923a7dbd15c0a21c4629e08401212d4e46ab98bb12f45219e6fa880f6844fa44"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ri"]
---

# Rhode Island HB 6235 (2019) — AN ACT VALIDATING AND RATIFYING AMENDMENT TO SECTION 2-1 OF THE HOME RULE CHARTER OF THE CITY OF EAST PROVIDENCE (Ratifies and confirms the amendment to Section 2-1 of the Home Rule Charter of the city of East Providence establishing four (4) year terms for members of the city council.)

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **6235** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilin.state.ri.us/BillText/BillText19/HouseText19/H6235.pdf)

## Votes

- PASSAGE — **67–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Amore — primary (person)
- Cassar — primary (person)
- Kazarian — primary (person)
- Serodio — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2019-06-20** 06/20/2019 Introduced, referred to House Municipal Government `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2019-06-21** 06/21/2019 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (06/24/2019)
- **2019-06-24** 06/24/2019 Committee recommends passage `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-06-24** 06/24/2019 Placed on House Calendar (06/26/2019)
- **2019-06-26** 06/26/2019 House read and passed `passage`
- **2019-06-26** 06/26/2019 Placed on the Senate Consent Calendar (06/28/2019)
- **2019-06-28** 06/28/2019 Senate passed in concurrence `passage`
- **2019-07-11** 07/11/2019 Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2019-07-19** 07/19/2019 Effective without Governor's signature `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/78cacc38-8734-46f7-bce3-a180b2d136b8`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).